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Marine Mammals Protection Act

Act of Parliament in New Zealand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ1350647 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978 is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 1978. It is administered by the Department of Conservation.

The environmental organisation Project Jonah gave the major impetus for the government to create the Act.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Marine Mammals Protection Act” as act of Parliament in New Zealand. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marine, Mammals and Protection.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marine, Mammals and Protection providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Marine Mammals Protection Act”, the useful work is to connect “act of Parliament in New Zealand” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1350647. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Marine Mammals Protection Act”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Marine Mammals Protection Act primary sources, Marine Mammals Protection Act archive and Marine research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Marine Mammals Protection Act”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Marine Mammals Protection Act” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.